This week marks the beginning of the American Civil War Sesquicentennial, so Ken Burns was on the news this morning…
In honor of the release of Blake Butler’s THERE IS NO YEAR…
…I am pleased to bring you Blake’s fierce drag sister, Belinda Butler. Order THERE IS NO YEAR.
Contemporary Verse Novels and Sentences and Fragments: Charles Simic’s DIME STORE ALCHEMY
I’m not really sure why I keep writing about “Contemporary Verse Novels,” because I’m not that interested in labeling things.…
Flatmancrooked is done
From FMC: “Dearest Readers, You’ve might’ve heard the rumors by now and, unfortunately, the rumors are true. Flatmancrooked is closing its doors.…
Sentences and Fragments: Brian McGettrick’s EVERYTHING ELSE WE MUST ENDURE
Sunnyoutside 52 pages, $13.00 I want to look at two poems from this collection, “I found out over coffee,…
From the Barbaric Heart: Sufjan Stevens’ Vengeful Play
I was listening to Sufjan Stevens’ song “I Walked” on his new album The Age of Adz when it occurred…
Sentences and Fragments: Evelyn Hampton’s WE WERE ETERNAL AND GIGANTIC
Magic Helicopter Press, 32 pages, $5.00 Many whiles ago a copy of this chapbook arrived in the mail, with a…
Reading Stanley Elkin’s Searches and Seizures: On “The Bailbondsman”
If you’ve been following along with us here at Big Other, you know that in January we read and discussed…
Conversations and Connections in DC: Ten Reasons You Should be There.
And no, not just because I’m going to be there. (Though I would be very pleased to see you, of…
Sentences and Fragments: Prathna Lor’s VENTRILOQUISM and Myriam Gurba’s WISH YOU WERE ME
Okay, I know, weekends are terrible times to post things on the Internet, and apologies to the Big Other crew…